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I am participating today and tomorrow at a seminar at Roger Williams University Law School, entitled Cyber Threats and Cyber Realities. It is being hosted by our Lawfare guest contributor Peter Marguile...
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Last Friday the government filed this brief in CA2 in the NYT’s and ACLU’s appeal in the case involving FOIA requests on targeted killing.
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Last week (which seems almost an age ago) when the NSA telephone call meta-data portion of the NSA disclosures first broke, Ben wondered about how an application could be written that would satisfy Secti...
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I know it is hard to turn our attention away from the NSA spying programs, but it might be worthwhile to consider that other significant threats to American security exist, possibly even ones greater the...
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Ben Emmerson, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, issued the following statement on Friday following a visit t...
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You can't make this stuff up. The Guardian has revealed its source to be NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who (not surprisingly) appears to be a fierce advocate of online freedom and privacy and who (perh...
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This memorandum from the Secretary of Defense, came across my screen the other day. It will give the reader some insight into how DoD is trying to build its cyber capabilities.
MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIE...
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Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.
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Apropos of Jack's post: here's the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization bill for 2014.
Among many, many other things, the draft legislation requires the Secretary of Defense to notify c...
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Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and other bad stuff has issued a statement reiterating his call for a "moratorium" on the use of lethal autonomous robots.
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As many of you might have read, the Department of Justice announced a large scale money-laundering indictment against Liberty Reserve yesterday. I will have some analysis of this development (and the re...
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Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller has an excellent story in Sunday's paper on the operational role of the CIA in drone warfare. Back at the time of the Brennan confirmation hearings...
